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The Army is looking to its Net Zero program as a key way for the service to meet its broad goals of trimming energy consumption while increasing its reliance on alternative sources of energy, senior officials said Tuesday at the 2011 Association of the U.S. Army Annual Meeting …

Applications from four defense communities to a DOD program funding transportation improvements at medical facilities growing as a result of BRAC exceeded its $300 million cap, meaning some projects won’t obtain federal funding. Fairfax County submitted the largest funding request, asking for $185 million to widen Route 1 near Fort Belvoir, home of the new Fort Belvoir Community Hospital …

Legislation intended to slash thousands of unneeded federal properties through a civilian BRAC commission and potentially save billions of dollars will be marked up Thursday by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. The panel’s Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management Subcommittee approved the Civilian Property Realignment Act in May …

Despite the need to cut defense spending by more than $450 billion over the next decade, the potential exists for the nation to build a modern force that maintains its role as a global leader, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Tuesday. Achieving such a result will be challenging but will be greatly aided with the cooperation of Congress …

In advance of budget cuts expected to approach several hundred billion dollars or more over the coming decade, the Army has embarked on its own cost-cutting exercise, Army Secretary John McHugh said Monday. Those efforts include reforming Installation Management Command, removing redundancies in research, eliminating unneeded task forces …

A four-square block area containing World War II-era Army barracks buildings at the former Fort Chaffee in western Arkansas has been added to the National Register of Historic Places, the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority said last week. The Camp Chaffee Tank Destroyer Battalion District is best known for housing the Barbershop Museum where Elvis Presley received his famous Army buzz cut in 1958 …

The Lemoore City Council last week accepted 17 of the 21 recommendations in the joint land use study for NAS Lemoore in central California. The study’s policy committee — made up of officials from Lemoore, Kings County and Fresno County — approved the final study in August and asked each jurisdiction to pass a resolution supporting its recommendations …

A $7.4 million plasma waste-to-energy system operating at Hurlburt Field, Fla., is reducing landfill use and gas emissions, while producing usable energy. The system is undergoing testing by Air Force Special Operations Command to see how much energy can be generated, as a system of its size had never been built …